From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Bottomley Subject: Re: [PATCH] hpsa: fix physical device lun and target numbering problem Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2011 15:20:41 -0500 Message-ID: <1312921242.8648.11.camel@mulgrave> References: <20110809131801.10649.44268.stgit@beardog.cce.hp.com> <1312920391.8648.6.camel@mulgrave> <20110809200954.GH27723@beardog.cce.hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from bedivere.hansenpartnership.com ([66.63.167.143]:47550 "EHLO bedivere.hansenpartnership.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752412Ab1HIUUq (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2011 16:20:46 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20110809200954.GH27723@beardog.cce.hp.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com Cc: Stephen Cameron , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mikem@beardog.cce.hp.com, thenzl@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, axboe@kernel.dk On Tue, 2011-08-09 at 15:09 -0500, scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com wrote: > On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 03:06:31PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-08-09 at 14:58 -0500, Stephen Cameron wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Stephen Cameron > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Despite the above patch, which I do think is correct, I can still get > > > > a panic (on RHEL 6.1 with 2.6.31-rc1 kernel) > > > > > > Er, I meant 3.1-rc1, not 2.6.31-rc1. > > > > Do I take it from the fact that you cc'd stable that you want these > > patches in the stable tree in spite of not adding the stable tag? > > > > James > > > > Well, I obviously don't know how to CC stable properly. Yes, that's why Greg keeps sending you a form letter. > I think I will stop since it only seems to annoy Greg > and make me feel like an idiot for trying. First, but why don't you actually read the file Greg keeps referring you to in his form letter: Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt It actually tells you how to submit, and what this tag thing I've been asking about is. It's only 80 lines long and will amply repay time spent reading it. James